Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By George Herbert (15931633)Dialogue
SWEETEST Saviour, if my soul | |
Were but worth the having, | |
Quickly should I then control | |
Any thought of waving. | |
But when all my care and pains | 5 |
Cannot give the name of gains | |
To Thy wretch so full of stains, | |
What delight or hope remains? | |
What, child, is the balance thine, | |
Thine the poise and measure? | 10 |
If I say, Thou shalt be Mine, | |
Finger not My treasure. | |
What the gains in having thee | |
Do amount to, only He, | |
Who for man was sold, can see; | 15 |
That transferr’d th’ accounts to Me. | |